Wendell Barnhouse is a nationally-known and respected columnist who has spent over 20 years covering collegiate athletics. He has reported from 25 Final Fours and more than three dozen bowl games and has written about the Big 12 and its schools since the conference's beginning. Barnhouse will be updating the Big 12 Insider on happenings and behind-the-scenes information about the conference.

Kansas tied for fourth in the NCAA Women's Track and Field Outdoor
Championships, its best finish ever - but an official review cost a KU triple
jumper a national championship. Blair Kerkhoff of the Kansas City Star as the details.

Kansas
coach Bill Self grew up in Oklahoma City and he tells Kevin Haskin of the
Topeka Capital-Journal that he had doubts - which he now freely admits were
wrong - the city would support an NBA franchise.